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Originally posted by amandadyer
As far as creepy pictures go, it was also fairly common in the Victorian era to take pictures of dead people and collect them in albums. I've seen books published with these images, and most of the time the person looks asleep, and someone who isn't aware of the custom would never know that the person is dead.
Both of these customs are manifestations of the (overzealous and quite creepy, in my opinion) Victorian fascination with death and the afterlife.
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Yeah...glad I missed the Victorian era. Those were creepy times, indeed. The "book of the dead" was brought up in the Nicole Kidman film
The Others. I had never heard of it until then.
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